Canada Plans to Admit 3,000 South Vietnamese

OTTAWA, May 1 (Reuters) —Canada will accept 3,000 South Vietnamese refugees, Immigration Minister Robert Andras said in the House of Commons today.

The Government has agreed to take 2,000 of the approximately 50,000 refugees exacuated from Saigon by the United States, he said. The others would be refugees who escaped on their own and were now in Hong Kong and Bangkok.

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